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No love in return from Kitzbühel: Lutz Meschke is CFO and deputy chairman of the board at Porsche.
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Porsche CFO Lutz Meschke is no longer allowed to use his villa in Tyrol as a holiday home.
A dispute in court fails.
Kitzbühel – Kitzbühel and the surrounding towns attract numerous holidaymakers every year.
However, CFO and Vice Board Member of Porsche AG Lutz Meschke is having trouble with the authorities there.
There were discrepancies regarding another main residence in Austria.
Porsche's finance director is no longer allowed to use Villa in Tyrol
As the Austrian broadcaster
Puls 24
reported, Meschke is said to have bought a chalet in the beautifully located municipality of Going in the Kitzbühel district in 2014.
According to Bild
, Meschke is
himself active in the real estate business with hotels and houses in Tyrol and therefore often stays in Going.
However, a court forbade him from using his villa at the foot of the Wilder Kaiser.
The house may only be used as a main residence and not as holiday accommodation.
“My first and tax-relevant main residence was and always is in Germany,” the Porsche board member told the newspaper.
“Since I used the house in Austria as a second workplace and worked there a lot and often, I assumed, after legal advice in Austria, that I had another main residence there.”
Meschke therefore had two main residences and thus contradicted the requirements in Tyrol.
When registering the property as a primary residence, the owner must use it for long-term use.
Otherwise you could face high administrative penalties.
“If the apartment is essentially a holiday home for which duties and taxes have to be paid to the municipality, the main residence can be forcibly deregistered,” informed the Association of Germans Abroad.
Discrepancies regarding primary residence in Tyrol: “Attentive citizen” reports Porsche’s finance director
An “attentive citizen of Goingen” is said to have reported the discrepancies in her place of residence, the community of 2,000 residents told the Austrian portal
oe24
.
The use of the holiday home was banned as early as July 2023, according to a court ruling.
Meschke then contradicted the allegations that it was an “illegal leisure residence”.
When asked by
IPPEN.MEDIA
, a Porsche spokesman emphasized : “Lutz Meschke did not give any false information, but described his life situation, saying that he often stayed in his house in Going, used it as a place of work, but at the same time worked in Stuttgart and had the center of his life there With this argument, the finance director wanted to establish another main residence.
Complaint against the expulsion of the Porsche boss is rejected
However, the complaint was rejected in mid-January.
His arguments justifying his main residence in Tyrol as such did not convince the Tyrol Regional Administrative Court.
The incident was examined in administrative criminal proceedings, which in Germany is similar to administrative offense proceedings.
The chalet in Going is now for sale, the Porsche spokesman confirmed.
The Porsche manager recently commented on the planned end to internal combustion engines in the EU.
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